FRANCE: INAUGURAL AIR FRANCE FLIGHT FROM PARIS TO SHANGHAI

Record ID: 574479

  • Title: FRANCE: INAUGURAL AIR FRANCE FLIGHT FROM PARIS TO SHANGHAI
  • Date: 19th September 1966
  • Summary: PASSENGERS AT ORLY AIRPORT; BOARDING AIRCRAFT. Initials PBS/V/AS/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th October 1966 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA6TH0Q0OJW32PINKP92PSKTJUP
  • Story Text: AN AIR FRANCE BOEING 707 JET AIRLINERS TOOK OFF FROM PARIS THIS MORNING (MONDAY) FOR SHANGHAI TO OPEN THE FIRST DIRECT, REGULARLY-SCHEDULE AIR LINK BETWEEN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND WESTERN EUROPE.

    THE PASSENGERS ON THE INAUGURAL FLIGHT INCLUDE TWENTY-FOUR FRENCH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS LED BY THE DIRECTOR OF CIVIL AVIATION IN FRANCE, M. JACQUES BOITREAUD. THE GENERAL MANAGER OF AIR FRANCE, M. JOSEPH ROOS WAS ALSO ON BOARD.

    THE SERVICE WILL OPERATE WEEKLY, AND AIRCRAFT WILL FLY THROUGH ATHENS, CAIRO, KARACHI, AND PHNOM PENH.

    THE AGREEMENT TO ESTABLISH THE AIR LINK WAS REACHED IN JUNE AFTER SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES, INCLUDING BRITISH, JAPANESE AND SCANDIVANIAN AIRLINE COMPANIES HAD UNSUCCESSFULLY TRIED TO OPEN SERVICES INTO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    THE FLIGHT LEAVES PARIS AT 1100 HOURS LOCAL TIME, AND REACHES SHANGHAI ABOUT 21 1/2 HOURS LATER. THE ECONOMY CLASS RETURN FARE FROM PARIS TO SHANGHAI IS GBP433 STERLING.
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